English Dictionary: Book of Daniel | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Backbite \Back"bite`\, v. i. [2nd back, n., + bite] To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). --Spenser. | |
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Backbite \Back"bite`\, v. i. To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. --Shak. | |
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Backbiter \Back"bit`er\, n. One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor. | |
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Backbiting \Back"bit`ing\, n. Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. --Piers Plowman. | |
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Basipodite \Ba*sip"o*dite\, n. [Basi- + [?], [?], foot.] (Anat.) The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea. | |
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d8Basipterygium \[d8]Ba*sip`te*ryg"i*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a base + [?] a fin.] (Anat.) A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. -- {Ba*sip`ter*yg"i*al}, a. | |
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Basipterygoid \Ba`sip*ter"y*goid\, a. & n. [Basi- + pierygoid.] (Anat.) Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone. | |
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Bespatter \Be*spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bespattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bespattering}.] 1. To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains. 2. To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. --Swift. | |
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Bespatter \Be*spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bespattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bespattering}.] 1. To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains. 2. To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. --Swift. | |
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Bespatter \Be*spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bespattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bespattering}.] 1. To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains. 2. To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. --Swift. | |
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Bespit \Be*spit\ (b[esl]*sp[icr]t"), v. t. [imp. {Bespit}; p. p. {Bespit}, {Bespitten} (-t'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bespitting}.] To daub or soil with spittle. --Johnson. | |
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Bespit \Be*spit\ (b[esl]*sp[icr]t"), v. t. [imp. {Bespit}; p. p. {Bespit}, {Bespitten} (-t'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bespitting}.] To daub or soil with spittle. --Johnson. | |
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Bespit \Be*spit\ (b[esl]*sp[icr]t"), v. t. [imp. {Bespit}; p. p. {Bespit}, {Bespitten} (-t'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bespitting}.] To daub or soil with spittle. --Johnson. | |
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Bespot \Be*spot"\ (b[esl]*sp[ocr]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bespotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bespotting}.] To mark with spots, or as with spots. | |
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Bespot \Be*spot"\ (b[esl]*sp[ocr]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bespotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bespotting}.] To mark with spots, or as with spots. | |
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Bespot \Be*spot"\ (b[esl]*sp[ocr]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bespotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bespotting}.] To mark with spots, or as with spots. | |
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Bicipital \Bi*cip"i*tal\, a. [L. biceps, bicipitis: cf. F. bicipital. See {Biceps}.] 1. (Anat.) (a) Having two heads or origins, as a muscle. (b) Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm. 2. (Bot.) Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree. | |
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Bicipitous \Bi*cip"i*tous\, a. Having two heads; bicipital. [bd]Bicipitous serpents.[b8] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Cone-nose \Cone"-nose`\, n. A large hemipterous insect of the family {Reduviid[91]}, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called {kissing bugs}. It is also called {big bedbug}. | |
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Biseptate \Bi*sep"tate\, a. [Pref. bi- + septate.] With two partitions or septa. --Gray. | |
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Bishopdom \Bish"op*dom\, n. Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. [bd]Divine right of bishopdom.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Bishop \Bish"op\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bishoped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bishoping}.] To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor. | |
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Bishop \Bish"op\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bishoped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bishoping}.] [From the name of the scoundrel who first practiced it. Youatt.] (Far.) To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth. Note: The plan adopted is to cut off all the nippers with a saw to the proper length, and then with a cutting instrument the operator scoops out an oval cavity in the corner nippers, which is afterwards burnt with a hot iron until it is black. --J. H. Walsh. | |
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Bog \Bog\, n. [Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.] 1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. --R. Jago. 2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] {Bog bean}. See {Buck bean}. {Bog bumper} (bump, to make a loud noise), {Bog blitter}, {Bog bluiter}, {Bog jumper}, the bittern. [Prov.] {Bog butter}, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. {Bog earth} (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. --P. Cyc. {Bog moss}. (Bot.) Same as {Sphagnum}. {Bog myrtle} (Bot.), the sweet gale. {Bog ore}. (Min.) (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese. {Bog rush} (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass. {Bog spavin}. See under {Spavin}. | |
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Pentateuch \Pen"ta*teuch\, n. [L. pentateuchus, Gr. [?]; [?] (see {Penta-}) + [?] a tool, implement, a book, akin to [?] to prepare, make ready, and perh. to E. text. See {Five}, and {Text}.] The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the {Law of Moses}, {Book of the Law of Moses}, etc. | |
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Busybody \Bus"y*bod`y\ (-b[ocr]d`[ycr]), n.; pl. {Busybodies} (-b[ocr]d`[icr]z). One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person. And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. --1 Tim. v. 13. | |
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Busybody \Bus"y*bod`y\ (-b[ocr]d`[ycr]), n.; pl. {Busybodies} (-b[ocr]d`[icr]z). One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person. And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. --1 Tim. v. 13. | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
bagbiter /bag'bi:t-*r/ n. 1. Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy manner. "This text editor won't let me make a file with a line longer than 80 characters! What a bagbiter!" 2. A person who has caused you some trouble, inadvertently or otherwise, typically by failing to program the computer properly. Synonyms: {loser}, {cretin}, {chomper}. 3. `bite the bag' vi. To fail in some manner. "The computer keeps crashing every five minutes." "Yes, the disk controller is really biting the bag." The original loading of these terms was almost undoubtedly obscene, possibly referring to a douche bag or the scrotum (we have reports of "Bite the douche bag!" being used as an insult at MIT 1970-1976), but in their current usage they have become almost completely sanitized. ITS's {lexiphage} program was the first and to date only known example of a program _intended_ to be a bagbiter. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
bagbiting adj. Having the quality of a {bagbiter}. "This bagbiting system won't let me compute the factorial of a negative number." Compare {losing}, {cretinous}, {bletcherous}, `barfucious' (under {barfulous}) and `chomping' (under {chomp}). | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
BiCapitalization n. The act said to have been performed on trademarks (such as {PostScript}, NeXT, {NeWS}, VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!solver, EasyWriter) that have been raised above the ruck of common coinage by nonstandard capitalization. Too many {marketroid} types think this sort of thing is really cute, even the 2,317th time they do it. Compare {studlycaps}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ n. 1. obs. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see {space-cadet keyboard}). 2. By extension, bits associated with `extra' shift keys on any keyboard, e.g., the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that `bucky bits' were named for Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when _he_ was at Stanford in 1964-65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7-bit ASCII character). It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him `Bucky' after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See {double bucky}, {quadruple bucky}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
bug-of-the-month club n. [from "book-of-the-month club", a time-honored mail-order-marketing technique in the U.S.] A mythical club which users of `sendmail(8)' (the UNIX mail daemon) belong to; this was coined on the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.unix at a time when sendmail security holes, which allowed outside {cracker}s access to the system, were being uncovered at an alarming rate, forcing sysadmins to update very often. Also, more completely, `fatal security bug-of-the-month club'. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Backup Domain Controller {SAM} database, handling access requests that the {Primary Domain Controller} doesn't respond to. BDCs increase reliability and reduce load on the PDC. (2003-07-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BiCapitalisation The act said to have been performed on trademarks (such as {PostScript}, {NeXT}, {NeWS}, {VisiCalc}, {FrameMaker}, {TK!solver}, {EasyWriter}) that have been raised above the ruck of common coinage by nonstandard capitalisation. Too many {marketroid} types think this sort of thing is really cute, even the 2,317th time they do it. Compare {studlycaps}. (1995-02-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard ({octal} 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see {space-cadet keyboard}). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until {GLS} dug up this history in early 1993! See {double bucky}, {quadruple bucky}. (2001-06-22) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Backbite In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent. |